Tim D'Annecy

Displaying ZawGyi and Myanmar unicode fonts on Chrome

Chrome doesn’t display Burmese language characters correctly and
you won’t be able to read anything on websites written in them.
Both ZawGyi or unicode characters show up as blank boxes and
there’s no way to change the Language or Input settings in Chrome
to get them to show up. It’s been this way for 51 versions.

Luckily, the Myanmar Font Tools
extension
on the Chrome Web Store adds the ability to display these
characters. You can also check out the Github
repository if you want to compile
it yourself. There’s no configuring or tweaking needed and after
you’ve installed it, pages with Burmese characters will display
correctly.

Honestly, I don’t know why this functionality isn’t available by
default in Chrome. It’s a slight annoyance, but it should be
included in the list of languages.